Yep, me again :-) Having problems with a special character ("$") in the email messages.

All our auction items include a line in the description indicating the item's estimated value, like this:

Estimated Value: $3000

It displays fine on the website, but when the description is included in an email message, the dollar sign and two following characters are dropped, so it displays like this:

Estimated Value: 00

I figured this must be something with the encoding (the controller taking the dollar sign as indicating a variable?), so I tried using the HTML ASCII code instead ($), but Joomla converts it into a dollar sign, and the dollar sign is stored as a simple character in the database, not as the HTML entity.

A workaround I guess would be to format our estimated values as "USD3000" or similar, but if there's a quick way to fix this, I wouldn't have to manually update every auction item description.